Language Dispersal Beyond Farming.

Intro -- Language Dispersal Beyond Farming -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Farming/Language Dispersal: Food for thought -- 1. Agriculture-driven language spread -- 2. Data and questions -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 The diversity hotspot principle -- 3.2 Phylolinguistics -- 3.3 Mapping demographic dispersal on linguistic phylogeny -- 3.4 Cultural reconstruction -- 3.5 Contact linguistics -- 4. Organization of this volume -- 5. Findings -- References -- Chapter 2. Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara agropastoral terms: Reconstruction and contact patterns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Quechua-Aymara relationship -- 2.1 Pre-Proto-Quechua and Pre-Proto-Aymara -- 3. Agricultural and pastoral terminology in the early Quechuan and Aymaran lineages -- 3. Agricultural and pastoral terminology in the early Quechuan and Aymaran lineages -- 3.1 The innovative character of some Proto-Quechua agropastoral terms -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Subsistence terms in Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Subsistence terminology and language spread -- 3.1 Evidence for early agriculture? -- 3.2 Traditional subsistence terminology -- 4. Major patterns -- 4.1 Unequal distribution of cognates between semantic domains -- 4.2 Gender differences in proportions of cognates -- 4.3 Correlations in proportions of cognates and borrowings between Eskimo and Unangam Tunuu -- 4.4 Cognates and Post-Eskimo-Aleut split technology -- 4.5 The motivations for language spread -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Author queries -- Chapter 4. Lexical recycling as a lens onto shared Japano-Koreanic agriculture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of OJ ine 'rice plant' and yone 'hulled, uncooked rice'.

3. Analysis of Korean rice vocabulary -- 3.1 Pre-MK *yé ~ OJ yone -- 3.2 Pre-MK *ap ~ OJ apa -- 3.3 Pre-MK *sól ~ OJ wase -- 3.4 Pre-MK *po: Conclusions -- 4. Analysis of OJ swoba and MK cwoh -- 4.1 Agricultural vocabulary: Conclusions -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Borrowing of agricultural terminology? -- 5.2 The chronology of Proto-Korean-Japanese -- 5.3 Lexical recycling as a general pattern in Korean -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. The language of the Transeurasian farmers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The diversity hotspot principle -- 3. Bayesian phylolinguistics -- 4. Linking demographic pulses to language dispersals -- 4.1 The establishment of millet agriculture -- 4.2 The eastward spread of millet agriculture -- 4.3 The integration and spread of rice and millet agriculture -- 4.4 Demography mapped on linguistic phylogeny -- 5. Cultural reconstruction -- 5.1 Economic plants and cultivation -- 5.2 Subsistence activities -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 6. Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic: Farming-related terms in Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Proto-Turkic: Its homeland and historical background -- 3. Pastoralist vocabulary in Proto-Turkic -- 4. Agricultural vocabulary in Proto-Turkic -- 5. Altaic connections of Proto-Turkic pastoralist vocabulary -- 6. Altaic connections for Proto-Turkic agricultural vocabulary -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Appendix 1. Forms underlying the reconstructed Proto-Turkic roots and their Altaic connections -- Chapter 7. Farming and the Trans-New Guinea family: A consideration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trans-New Guinea languages -- 3. Agriculture and its emergence in New Guinea -- 4. Beyond taro -- 5. Proto-Trans-New Guinea sugarcane and banana reconstructed.

6. History of sugarcane and banana and their exploitation in New Guinea -- 7. An agricultural package for Trans-New Guinea -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. The domestications and the domesticators of Asian rice: The domestications and the domesticators of Asian rice -- 1. Rice genetics and rice domestications -- 2. Linguistic palaeontology and the early rice cultivators -- 3. Challenges to the archaeology of rice agriculture -- 4. Zooming in on the Austroasiatic and Hmong-Mien homelands -- 5. The Father Tongue correlation and the East Asian linguistic phylum -- 6. Rice and the East Asian dispersal -- References -- Chapter 9. Macrofamilies and agricultural lexicon: Problems and perspectives -- Introduction -- A. Nostratic -- B. Sino-Caucasian -- C. Afroasiatic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 10. Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers?: Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers?: A first assessment of the linguistic evidence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reviewing the evidence for the Bantu Expansion as a language/farming dispersal -- 2. Reviewing the evidence for the Bantu Expansion as a language/farming dispersal -- 3. Crop vocabulary in Proto-West-Coastal Bantu -- 4. Wild plant vocabulary in Proto-West-Coastal Bantu -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 11. Expanding the methodology of lexical examination in the investigation of the intersection of early agriculture and language dispersal: Expanding the methodology of lexical examination in the investigation of the intersection of early agricultu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical analysis exemplified, and critiqued -- 2.1 The Proto-language Lexeme approach -- 2.2 The root etymology approach -- 2.3 The loanword approach -- 2.4 Assessment -- 3. Derivation -- 4. The lexicon of ritual.

5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 12. Agricultural terms in Indo-Iranian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Neolithic" vocabulary -- 2.1 General remarks -- 2.2 Terms for domestic animals -- 2.3 Agricultural plants -- 2.4 Agricultural technology -- 3. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 13. Milk and the Indo-Europeans -- Introduction -- 1. The archaeological and genetic background -- 2. Linguistic and philological evidence on the place of milk among Indo-Europeans -- 2.1 Indo-European words for 'to milk' -- 2.2 Indo-European words for 'milk' derived from 'to milk' -- 2.3 Greek and Latin textual evidence for milk-drinking among Indo-European "barbarians" -- 2.3 Greek and Latin textual evidence for milk-drinking among Indo-European "barbarians" -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- 3. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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